Another The Good Place season has come to an end. A review of the finale, “Pandemonium,” coming up just as soon as I set up Drake and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a secret couple … Even a show like The Good Place that takes such pleasure in surprising and confounding …
Read More »PrettyMuch Kick Off 2019 With Rooftop Party in New 'Blind' Video
Boy band PrettyMuch show off their dance skills for the rooftop-set “Blind” video, the group’s first new single of the year. The midtempo, romantic, trap-pop ballad has the boy band lamenting that they would “be better off blind” if they had to go without their lover. “When I close my …
Read More »Grimes Brings Ghostly Edge to Bring Me the Horizon's Song 'Nihilist Blues'
Grimes adds an eerie edge to Bring Me the Horizon‘s “Nihilist Blues,” a single from the band’s upcoming sixth LP, Amo. The art-pop singer appears in the second verse and chorus of the electro-track, balancing out Oliver Sykes’ silky falsetto with an a alluring creepiness. “Light as a feather, stiff …
Read More »Brandi Carlile, Iron and Wine Set for 2019 Americana Spring Celebration
Brandi Carlile leads a lineup of roots-oriented performers announced for this year’s Americana Spring Celebration, an annual benefit retreat hosted at a Smoky Mountains luxury resort in East Tennessee. Now in its ninth year, the four-day event at Blackberry Farm will take place April 25th – 28th and benefit the …
Read More »Hear Broken Social Scene Tease New EP With Uplifting 'All I Want'
Indie darlings Broken Social Scene unveiled a new song, “All I Want,” from their forthcoming EPLet’s Try the After – Vol. 1, set to arrive February 15th via Arts and Crafts. The track opens with an synth pulsing over the tinny crack of old-school electronic drums. Andrew Whiteman sings lead …
Read More »Randy Rogers Band Announces New 'Hellbent' Album With Dave Cobb
Randy Rogers Band is gearing up to release its first new LP in over three years this spring: the Texas country act will drop its eighth album, Hellbent, on April 26th. Hellbent marks Rogers’ first collaboration with all-star country/Americana producer Dave Cobb, who oversaw the sessions for the 11-track album …
Read More »Trump Offers a Recycled 'Compromise' in Speech, Democrats Reject It
President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House to present his plan for reopening the government. Trump said that his plan will “break the log jam” of the government shutdown and to “solve the crisis on the southern border.” But early Democratic reaction …
Read More »Kate Nash Goes Grunge in New 'Trash' Video
Kate Nash goes grunge for the Nineties-inspired video for her single “Trash.” It’s her first new song since her 2018 LP Yesterday Was Forever. Inspired by Nineties MTV, the Aidan Zamiri-directed video has gritty, grainy shots of Nash in baggy grunge fashion in front of green screen visuals of garbage, …
Read More »Cardi B on Government Shutdown: 'Our Country is in a Hellhole Right Now, for a F-king Wall'
Cardi B slammed President Trump and the government shutdown, the longest in American history, and advocated for those having to work without getting paid in a humorously expletive-laden video post on Instagram on Wednesday. “Hey y’all, I just wanted to remind you because it’s been a little over three weeks, …
Read More »Sharon Van Etten's 'Remind Me Tomorrow': Pop Songs From the Edge
Over the past decade, Sharon Van Etten has emerged as one of the most viscerally potent songwriters around, able to create gigantic-feeling songs that can have Taylor Swift levels of steely-eyed romantic recrimination: “The moral of the story is, don’t lie to me again,” she warned with scathing clarity on …
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